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Model Lessons For Infant School Teachers And Nursery Governesses, By The Author Of 'Lessons On Objects' - Softcover

Elizabeth Mayo

 
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Model Lessons For Infant School Teachers And Nursery Governesses, By The Author Of 'Lessons On Objects' by Elizabeth Mayo. This nineteenth-century instructional manual, originally published in 1838, provides a practical program for training young teachers in infant education. Mayo frames her approach around moral development and the development of the child’s powers through observation, expression, and concrete experience, drawing on Pestalozzi’s ideas as reframed for English classrooms. The work comprises sections on Scripture lessons for the infant classroom, lessons on the human body, and extensive 'lessons on objects'—from flint and water to wool, bark, feathers, lead, sugar, milk, leather, chalk, coal, writing paper, and more—each organized to develop sensory observation, language, and careful questioning. A substantial portion is devoted to 'Lessons on Number' and 'Lessons on Colours', including an arithmetical apparatus and a taxonomy of objects for demonstration. Throughout, the text emphasizes the teacher’s role, the necessity of patient labor, and the prayerful dependence on divine aid for effective instruction.

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